NAME
Astro::Hipparcos - Perl extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog
SYNOPSIS
use Astro::Hipparcos;
my $catalog = Astro::Hipparcos->new("thefile.dat");
while (defined(my $record = $catalog->get_record())) {
print $record->get_HIP(), "\n"; # print record id
}DESCRIPTION
This is an extension for reading the Hipparcos star catalog.
METHODS
new
Given a file name, returns a new Astro::Hipparcos catalog object.
get_record
Returns the next record (line) from the catalog as an Astro::Hipparcos::Record object.
SEE ALSO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos_Catalogue
At the time of this writing, you could obtain a copy of the Hipparcos catalogue from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/1/1239/ (hip_main.dat.gz).
AUTHOR
Steffen Mueller, <smueller@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009 by Steffen Mueller
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.